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Sites of Memory: Exploring Social Rites and Collective Remembering

This article delves into various sites of memory, such as monuments, mausoleums, and historical events, and examines the role of social rituals and collective remembering in preserving and shaping collective memory. It explores the concept of oral history, storytelling, and the performative nature of memory. The article also highlights the connection between memory, violence, and diaspora narratives.

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Sites of Memory: Exploring Social Rites and Collective Remembering

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  1. Social memory: places and rites of remembering February 10, 2009

  2. The Swords of Qādisīyah, also called the Hands of Victory, Baghdad (1989)

  3. Monument as site-specific art: Mount Rushmore National Memorial Keystone, South Dakota (1927-1941) Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, this Native American sacred mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, during an expedition in 1885. The site was seized from the Lakota tribe after the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.

  4. Nation state and its monuments Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara- Anitkabir (1953)

  5. Modernizing Ankara: Ataturk Boulevard in early 20th c.

  6. “The term Ground Zero may be used to describe the point on the earth's surface where an explosion occurs.” (Wikipedia) Ground zero: WTC Site, New York 2001 Ground zero: Hiroshima 1945

  7. Aerial view of the World Trade Center site, 2001.

  8. New Orleans: An aerial view showing floodwaters around the entire downtown area after Hurricane Katrina (2005).

  9. What is oral history? the interviewing of individuals about their personal experiences of past events for the purpose of recollectingalternative narratives, which are not necessarilybound by official histories, and which are essentially silenced by those official histories. •  storytelling •  performance •  collective memory •  narrativity

  10. ... that there were people who realised that the struggle of citizens against state power is the struggle of their memory against forced forgetting, and who made it their aim from the beginning not only to save themselves but to survive as witnesses to later generations, to become relentless recorders... Connerton 15

  11. State violence and memory Population exchange between Greece and Turkey 1919-1922 1,400.000 uprooted

  12. Maurice Halbwachs (11 March 1877 - 16 March 1945) a French philosopher and sociologist

  13. Diaspora narratives: Armenians of Providence

  14. North Burial Ground, Providence

  15. Palu on the Euphrates, Eastern Turkey

  16. Old Palu: homeland of Providence Armenians

  17. Armenian family from Palu, Karakoçan/Depe/Tepeh Bedros and Mariam Bedrosian Manuk Vartanian’s wife Elizabeth Krekorian, from Palu

  18. Surp Boghos Vank Church, Old Palu, Pesi (Nubshi) Village

  19. Sites of memory Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  20. Memory is not stored: it is performed collective action that re-animates history by re-iteration, social performance

  21. Collective memory, social performance and architectural space Pierre Nora: inscription of memory in the material world, architectural surfaces sites, places, landscapes of memory Paul Connerton: commemorative ceremonies ritual performances Bernard Tschumi: Event-places

  22. Woodstock

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